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The Department of History at UC Santa Cruz is known for its innovative research and exemplary scholarship. Our faculty work at the cutting edge of their respective fields, covering a wide variety of geographic, temporal, and thematic fields of study. The areas of specialization listed here are by no means an exhaustive list of our scholastic interests. Rather, they highlight the diverse and often overlapping ideas and approaches we explore within our teaching and research.

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Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Nathaniel Deutsch

Title
- Director of The Humanities Institute
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
- Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
Email
- ndeutsch@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States

Charles W Hedrick Jr.

Title
- Professor
Email
- hedrick@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Ancient World / Classics, Democracy, Classical Studies, Classics, History

Cynthia Polecritti

Title
- Professor Emerita
Email
- clpolecr@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Popular Culture, Urban studies, Middle Ages

Elaine A. Sullivan

Title
- History Undergraduate Program Director
- Associate Professor
Email
- easulliv@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Egyptology; Archaeology; Digital Humanities; Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments; Ancient World / Classics; History

Borderlands and Transnationalism

David Henry Anthony III

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- danthony@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...

Noriko Aso

Title
- East Asian Studies Program Director
- Associate Professor
Email
- naso@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual

David Brundage

Title
- Chair, Santa Cruz Division of the Academic Senate
- Professor
Email
- brundage@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History

Shelly Chan

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- spchan@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern China; transnational, transregional, and global history; social and cultural history; diaspora, postcolonial, cultural, and gender studies.

Alan S Christy

Title
- Cowell Provost
- Associate Professor
- Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- achristy@ucsc.edu
- cowlprovost@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities

Grace Peña Delgado

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- gpdelgad@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
Summary of Expertise
North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)

Immigration--Mexican, Asian

Gender and Sexuality

Race and Nationalism

Chinese in Mexico

Alma Rachel Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Associate Professor
Email
- aheckman@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History

Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

Edward H. Kehler

Title
- Continuing Lecturer
Email
- ekehler@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics

Aims McGuinness

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History
Summary of Expertise
Latin America, Panamá, U.S. empire, race, labor, California Gold Rush, socialism, Cold War, transnational/global history/world history.

Gregory E. O′Malley

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- gomalley@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History

Bruce A Thompson

Title
- Continuing Lecturer
Email
- brucet@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
Summary of Expertise
European history, Jewish history and literature.

Alice S. Yang

Title
- Associate Professor of History
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- ayang@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...

Colonialism and Empire

David Henry Anthony III

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- danthony@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...

Noriko Aso

Title
- East Asian Studies Program Director
- Associate Professor
Email
- naso@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual

Benjamin Breen

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- bebreen@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History of Science, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
Summary of Expertise
I am an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization, science, drugs, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My Read more ...

David Brundage

Title
- Chair, Santa Cruz Division of the Academic Senate
- Professor
Email
- brundage@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History

Shelly Chan

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- spchan@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern China; transnational, transregional, and global history; social and cultural history; diaspora, postcolonial, cultural, and gender studies.

Alan S Christy

Title
- Cowell Provost
- Associate Professor
- Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- achristy@ucsc.edu
- cowlprovost@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities

Muriam Haleh Davis

Title
- Assistant Professor
Email
- muhdavis@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Capitalism, European Studies

Jennifer L. Derr

Title
- Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz
Email
- jderr@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Disease and Immunity, Science Studies, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, Water

María Elena Díaz

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mediaz@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, Latin American and Latino Studies, History, Race, Law and Policy, Personal and Social Identities, Spanish
Summary of Expertise
Colonial Latin America and Caribbean history

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez

Title
- Assistant Professor
Email
- kgutie20@ucsc.edu
- gutierrezk@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise The Philippines, Southeast Asian Studies, History of Science, Colonialism, Science Studies
Summary of Expertise
Philippine history, science and technology studies, Southeast Asian studies, history of colonial botany

Alma Rachel Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Associate Professor
Email
- aheckman@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History

Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

Gail Hershatter

Title
- Research Professor and Distinguished Professor of History Emer.
Email
- gbhers@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, China, Communism, Cultural Studies, Pacific Rim, Gender Studies, Oral History, History, Labor and Social Movements, Sexuality
Summary of Expertise
history of modern China
labor history, China
gender and sexuality, China

Edward H. Kehler

Title
- Continuing Lecturer
Email
- ekehler@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics

Matthew Lasar

Title
- Lecturer
Email
- mlasar@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Politics, World History, United States Politics and Government
Summary of Expertise
The United States of America; the Cold War; conspiracies and conspiracy theories.

Amy Lonetree

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- lonetree@ucsc.edu
Summary of Expertise
Indigenous History, Museum Studies, Commemoration and Public Memory, Native American Cultural Production, Public History, and Ho-Chunk Tribal History

Marc Matera

Title
- Associate Professor
- History Graduate Program Director
- Co-director, Center for Cultural Studies
Email
- mmatera@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies

Aims McGuinness

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History
Summary of Expertise
Latin America, Panamá, U.S. empire, race, labor, California Gold Rush, socialism, Cold War, transnational/global history/world history.

Matt O′Hara

Title
- Provost, Stevenson College
- Professor
Email
- mdohara@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Mexico, Colonialism

Gregory E. O′Malley

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- gomalley@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History

Eric Porter

Title
- Professor
Email
- ecporter@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies

Juned M. Shaikh

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- jmshaikh@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise India and Indian Studies, Marxism, World History, Colonialism, Labor and Social Movements, Urban studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern South Asia, Urban, Labor, Caste, Dalit Studies, Marxism, and Intellectual History.

Marilyn J Westerkamp

Title
- Chair, History Department
- Professor
Email
- mjw@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies

Alice S. Yang

Title
- Associate Professor of History
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- ayang@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...

Critical Race and Indigeneity

David Henry Anthony III

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- danthony@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...

Muriam Haleh Davis

Title
- Assistant Professor
Email
- muhdavis@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Capitalism, European Studies

Grace Peña Delgado

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- gpdelgad@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
Summary of Expertise
North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)

Immigration--Mexican, Asian

Gender and Sexuality

Race and Nationalism

Chinese in Mexico

Nathaniel Deutsch

Title
- Director of The Humanities Institute
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
- Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
Email
- ndeutsch@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States

María Elena Díaz

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mediaz@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, Latin American and Latino Studies, History, Race, Law and Policy, Personal and Social Identities, Spanish
Summary of Expertise
Colonial Latin America and Caribbean history

Alma Rachel Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Associate Professor
Email
- aheckman@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History

Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

Catherine A Jones

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- catjones@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Civil War, Gender Studies, Race, Youth Studies
Summary of Expertise
Slavery and Emancipation

Civil War Era

History of Children and Childhood

American South

Matthew Lasar

Title
- Lecturer
Email
- mlasar@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Politics, World History, United States Politics and Government
Summary of Expertise
The United States of America; the Cold War; conspiracies and conspiracy theories.

Amy Lonetree

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- lonetree@ucsc.edu
Summary of Expertise
Indigenous History, Museum Studies, Commemoration and Public Memory, Native American Cultural Production, Public History, and Ho-Chunk Tribal History

Marc Matera

Title
- Associate Professor
- History Graduate Program Director
- Co-director, Center for Cultural Studies
Email
- mmatera@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies

Aims McGuinness

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History
Summary of Expertise
Latin America, Panamá, U.S. empire, race, labor, California Gold Rush, socialism, Cold War, transnational/global history/world history.

Gregory E. O′Malley

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- gomalley@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History

Eric Porter

Title
- Professor
Email
- ecporter@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies

Alice S. Yang

Title
- Associate Professor of History
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- ayang@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...

Early Modern World

Benjamin Breen

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- bebreen@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History of Science, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
Summary of Expertise
I am an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization, science, drugs, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My Read more ...

Alan S Christy

Title
- Cowell Provost
- Associate Professor
- Co-Director, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- achristy@ucsc.edu
- cowlprovost@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities

Nathaniel Deutsch

Title
- Director of The Humanities Institute
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
- Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
Email
- ndeutsch@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States

Minghui Hu

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mhu@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, China, Communism, History of Science, Chinese, History of Philosophy, Pacific Rim, Taiwan, Science Studies

Edward H. Kehler

Title
- Continuing Lecturer
Email
- ekehler@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics

Matt O′Hara

Title
- Provost, Stevenson College
- Professor
Email
- mdohara@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Mexico, Colonialism

Gregory E. O′Malley

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- gomalley@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History

Marilyn J Westerkamp

Title
- Chair, History Department
- Professor
Email
- mjw@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies

Gender and Sexuality

David Henry Anthony III

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- danthony@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...

Noriko Aso

Title
- East Asian Studies Program Director
- Associate Professor
Email
- naso@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual

Shelly Chan

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- spchan@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern China; transnational, transregional, and global history; social and cultural history; diaspora, postcolonial, cultural, and gender studies.

Grace Peña Delgado

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- gpdelgad@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
Summary of Expertise
North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)

Immigration--Mexican, Asian

Gender and Sexuality

Race and Nationalism

Chinese in Mexico

Gail Hershatter

Title
- Research Professor and Distinguished Professor of History Emer.
Email
- gbhers@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, China, Communism, Cultural Studies, Pacific Rim, Gender Studies, Oral History, History, Labor and Social Movements, Sexuality
Summary of Expertise
history of modern China
labor history, China
gender and sexuality, China

Catherine A Jones

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- catjones@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Civil War, Gender Studies, Race, Youth Studies
Summary of Expertise
Slavery and Emancipation

Civil War Era

History of Children and Childhood

American South

Matthew Lasar

Title
- Lecturer
Email
- mlasar@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Politics, World History, United States Politics and Government
Summary of Expertise
The United States of America; the Cold War; conspiracies and conspiracy theories.

Marc Matera

Title
- Associate Professor
- History Graduate Program Director
- Co-director, Center for Cultural Studies
Email
- mmatera@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies

Cynthia Polecritti

Title
- Professor Emerita
Email
- clpolecr@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Popular Culture, Urban studies, Middle Ages

Marilyn J Westerkamp

Title
- Chair, History Department
- Professor
Email
- mjw@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies

Alice S. Yang

Title
- Associate Professor of History
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- ayang@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...

Labor and Social Movements

David Henry Anthony III

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- danthony@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...

David Brundage

Title
- Chair, Santa Cruz Division of the Academic Senate
- Professor
Email
- brundage@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History

Shelly Chan

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- spchan@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern China; transnational, transregional, and global history; social and cultural history; diaspora, postcolonial, cultural, and gender studies.

Alma Rachel Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Associate Professor
Email
- aheckman@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History

Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

Gail Hershatter

Title
- Research Professor and Distinguished Professor of History Emer.
Email
- gbhers@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, China, Communism, Cultural Studies, Pacific Rim, Gender Studies, Oral History, History, Labor and Social Movements, Sexuality
Summary of Expertise
history of modern China
labor history, China
gender and sexuality, China

Matthew Lasar

Title
- Lecturer
Email
- mlasar@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Politics, World History, United States Politics and Government
Summary of Expertise
The United States of America; the Cold War; conspiracies and conspiracy theories.

Marc Matera

Title
- Associate Professor
- History Graduate Program Director
- Co-director, Center for Cultural Studies
Email
- mmatera@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies

Aims McGuinness

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History
Summary of Expertise
Latin America, Panamá, U.S. empire, race, labor, California Gold Rush, socialism, Cold War, transnational/global history/world history.

Eric Porter

Title
- Professor
Email
- ecporter@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies

Juned M. Shaikh

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- jmshaikh@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise India and Indian Studies, Marxism, World History, Colonialism, Labor and Social Movements, Urban studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern South Asia, Urban, Labor, Caste, Dalit Studies, Marxism, and Intellectual History.

Alice S. Yang

Title
- Associate Professor of History
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- ayang@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...

Religion and Secularism

David Henry Anthony III

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- danthony@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...

Nathaniel Deutsch

Title
- Director of The Humanities Institute
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
- Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
Email
- ndeutsch@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States

Alma Rachel Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Associate Professor
Email
- aheckman@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History

Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

Matt O′Hara

Title
- Provost, Stevenson College
- Professor
Email
- mdohara@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Mexico, Colonialism

Cynthia Polecritti

Title
- Professor Emerita
Email
- clpolecr@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Popular Culture, Urban studies, Middle Ages

Bruce A Thompson

Title
- Continuing Lecturer
Email
- brucet@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
Summary of Expertise
European history, Jewish history and literature.

Marilyn J Westerkamp

Title
- Chair, History Department
- Professor
Email
- mjw@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies

Science, Technology, and Environment

David Henry Anthony III

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- danthony@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
Summary of Expertise
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Read more ...

Benjamin Breen

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- bebreen@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History of Science, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
Summary of Expertise
I am an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization, science, drugs, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My Read more ...

Muriam Haleh Davis

Title
- Assistant Professor
Email
- muhdavis@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Capitalism, European Studies

Jennifer L. Derr

Title
- Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz
Email
- jderr@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Disease and Immunity, Science Studies, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, Water

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez

Title
- Assistant Professor
Email
- kgutie20@ucsc.edu
- gutierrezk@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise The Philippines, Southeast Asian Studies, History of Science, Colonialism, Science Studies
Summary of Expertise
Philippine history, science and technology studies, Southeast Asian studies, history of colonial botany

Minghui Hu

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mhu@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, China, Communism, History of Science, Chinese, History of Philosophy, Pacific Rim, Taiwan, Science Studies

Matthew Lasar

Title
- Lecturer
Email
- mlasar@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Politics, World History, United States Politics and Government
Summary of Expertise
The United States of America; the Cold War; conspiracies and conspiracy theories.

Bruce A Thompson

Title
- Continuing Lecturer
Email
- brucet@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
Summary of Expertise
European history, Jewish history and literature.